Danny's "Japan Office Tour" Categorized Photo Articles (9)

UPDATE: Sorry - you can enlarge the photos in this article now - t'was a bug on this end. Have you ever wanted to raid the Good Smile Company warehouses? If the answer is "yes" then come raid with me and Mikatan. ^^; The warehouse is huuuge so we'll nee...(more)

Now that the new Figma commercials have been released, I can show you what happened on the day of filming. First things first - meetings over lunch at the Indian restaurant run by Max Factory thats situated just below the Good Smile offices. Then it...(more)

So far we have taken a look at the offices of Good Smile Company, Max Factory, Kotobukya and brief look at Nitro Plus. Today we have a look at the offices of figure and related merchandise seller Hobby Stock. This is where they take all the figure pics. ...(more)

The next Japanese Office Tour is of the game/eroge/anime maker NitroPlus. This is more of a look at their entrance, meeting room and the goodies that I suddenly acquired rather than a full tour. The meetings that we were in ended up taking longer than expected and by the time we fi...(more)

Japan Office Tour Season 01 Episode 02 "GSC Tour Continued." Theres quite a bit of Japanese flying about this time and subbing it would have taken me 23 years. If anybody wants to translate this then stick the subs on your blog/site and I will link to it from this article and from the video up on YouTu...(more)

Looks like the start of a new season of videos - Japanese Office Tours. First up is episode 01 - the Good Smile offices. You saw a few photos from my last visit but the video footage contains more including a peek at my fave room (the store room), the 3D cutting machine and tools, pre-flight check whic...(more)

Today we look at the Max Factory offices that I visited with Mikatan from Good Smile. The Max offices were more dedicated to figure creation hence the lack of administrative staff. They work very closely with Good Smile and is a great example of how sharing and working together can...(more)

It gives me great pleasure in announcing that Hector Garcia has joined Mirai Inc as our Chief Technologist. Hector brings to Mirai many years of technical experience and know-how on delivering high traffic sites like Technorati and Kakaku.com at the Digital Garage Group. Before he...(more)

Been owing you a tour of the Good Smile offices for a while now and a post on the official Good Smile blog yesterday prompted me to make time to put this together sooner rather than later. Today we are going to look at the Good Smile offices and tomorrow we will take a look at the ...(more)